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Register Now This program is a partnership with The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum and the New England Rug Society During the Ottoman Empire, the sale and exchange of silks, cottons and woolens generated immense revenue and touched every level of society. As attested by surviving objects, trade with Italy, Iran and

Nathalie Farman-Farma will describe and illustrate the considerations she has taken to live and decorate with a varied and vast textile collection. Her personal journey of collecting textiles led her to design her own fabric line, Décors Barbares, which is inspired by antique textiles, primarily from Iran, Russia and Central Asia. Her passion for collecting

Please bring rugs or textiles from your collection to share. Three per person only please. This meeting will be open exclusively to members of the Hajji Baba Club. Complimentary hors d’oeuvres will be served. Cash bar. Please stay for dinner which is available at the Salmagundi Club and can be paid for individually at the

At the turn of the Twentieth Century, when women’s economic independence was fraught and their political rights negligible, female philanthropy emerged as educated and well-traveled heiresses of affluent American industrialists came to control money and make discretionary donations in certain prescribed circumstances. Within broader societal and economic influences, the reasons and motives for their actions

Friday April 14 3:00pm Dumbarton Oaks Private Tour Pre-Columbian textiles in the gallery with Precolumbian Curator and Chief Curator, Juan Antonio Murro, then a viewing of Byzantine textiles in the storage area. Approx. 1.5 hours After the tour we are free to visit the rest of the museum and the garden (extra charge for garden)

Part of the mystery and appeal of oriental carpets is their ability to borrow designs from a wide range of sources. This presentation will document the influence of Ottoman textile designs on Turkish rugs, and the impetus for those artistic borrowings. It will also examine the impact of rug design on textiles, and the use

The Moroccan carpet weaving culture is commonly described as a female domain, which has always been passed on from mother to daughter, from generation to generation. Production served only the family’s own needs, and commercialization did not take place until the 20th century. This picture certainly has a strong justification, but on closer examination it

In this talk, Sheila Fruman will present highlights from her forthcoming book Pull of the Thread: Textile Travels of a Generation. These intrepid travelers combed the streets and bazaars of Central and South Asia finding, researching, collecting and selling antique Kashmir shawls, woven ikat and embroidered Uzbek textiles and robes, Anatolian kilims, Turkmen carpets and